Cable railway



N. D. POLITES.

CABLE RAILWAY.`

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No. 524,788. Patented Aug. 21.1894.

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SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 524,788, dated August 21, 1894.

' Application filed March 7, 1894. Serial No. 562,614. (No model.)

To all whom it, may concern.-

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS' DEMETRIN POLITES, a citizen of the United States, residl ing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ca-` ble Railways; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates toimprovements in cable railways.

The invention will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings, and then particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a diagrammatic plan view of one form of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of a part of the same. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing another form of my invention.

VReferring to Figs. 1 and 2, A, A are two cables moving in opposite directions on one street which for the purpose of reference hereinafter, will be designated as 1st street.

'B is a cable moving in a circuit which inl `cludes two streets that cross 1st street these rlp. g By my invention the necessity for using horses to shift the cars from one track to another is avoided.

The cable B which is` shown as passing around the four corner drums one, two, three and four is preferably arranged as follows: Aafter leaving the drum 2and passing down B street it makes the curve b to 1st street and is then taken around drums 5, 6 and 7 from whence it makes a lcurve b onto B street,

then passes around the drum S to drum 9 and after passing around to said drum `9 continues its course in the usual manner. At the intersection of A street and 1st street it makes a curve b2 to the drum 10 around which it passes, thence around drums 11 and 12, after` which it makes a curve b3 to the drum 13, around which it turns and then continues as usual. If a car traveling along B street Vtoward 1st street is required to turn-out onto 1st street the grip is held to the cable 4until the car has passed around the curve at b whereupon the grip is released from the cable B and the cable A is picked up, the car there Vupon continuing down 1st street. If however, the car traveling along B street is required to cross the 1st street cable, the grip is released from the cable B at or near the drum 9, after which that portion of the cable B, between the drums 8 and 9, which is in line with the main portion of said cable, is caught by the grip, the car thus continuing on its route. i

The manner in which a car can move from A street onto 1st street or from 1st street onto B street will be apparent from the description heretofore given, the arrows indicating the direction of travel of the cable.

'It will be understood of course, that the cables A and A pass beneaththecable B at both intersections with it.

Fig. 3 is a detail view illustrating the manner in which my invention is applied to the intersection of two double track railways.

In all the views the arrows clearly indicate the direction of movement of the cable, moreover the manner in which a car is moved from onetrack to another, or is enabled to continue on a straight course, will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-f- In a cable railway, the combination, with two cables, of a series of three sheaves placed between the said two cables, a sheave outside of each of said two cables, two sets of curve sheaves located on curves from the outer sheaves to the three insidesheaves,

and a cable passing around one of the sets 4In testimonywhereoflafx my signature in oli; curve lslheaves, thexc1 aromd theE inside presence of two witnesses. s eaves t ence aroun t eot er Seto curve sheaves: thence around the adjacent outside NICHOLAS DEMEERIN POLITES' 5 sheave, and finally around the opposite out- Witnesses:

side sheave and back, substantially as de- SIMON LYON, scribed.

HENRY W. REED. 

